[PD] Free/open mobile platform for Pd?

Georg Holzmann grh at mur.at
Mon Oct 12 19:29:57 CEST 2009


Wow, thanks for these tipps ... didn't know that someone already did it.

I will maybe look into it after becoming a bit more familiar with this 
platform - would be really nice to have pd on it !

LG
Georg

Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
> 
> Just getting Pd on the Android phone would be easy, especially if you 
> have rooted it.  Basically, Pd-vanilla should build and run fine on 
> Android with some minor tweaks for Android-specific macros.  The only 
> tricky part is that Pd can't use Android's ALSA, it must use the Java 
> audio API via JNI.  So that would take custom code.
> 
> Once its built and has the C->Java JNI audio interface, then it 
> shouldn't be hard to package it up and distribute it as a regular 
> Android app.
> 
> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdForAndroid
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:
> 
>> Hallo!
>>
>> I just got an android phone (linux) and was actually quite impressed.
>> It is very user-friendly and there are also good development tools (I 
>> did not program something so far, but I will ...)
>>
>> However, I don't know how easy it is to port PD to android phones. The 
>> general platform is in java (because it should run hardware 
>> independent on many phones) and it's also possible to program in C - 
>> but then you maybe have to adjust your code manually to different 
>> phones ... I don't know ...
>>
>> For development on android see: http://developer.android.com/
>> BTW, there are also thousands of applications already, see e.g. 
>> http://www.cyrket.com/, also some nice basic sound apps ...
>>
>> LG
>> Georg
>>
>> Otto Maddox schrieb:
>>> Recently I looked at RjDj and was well impressed. Now I want to get a
>>> mobile device on which to run Pd to do similar things. An iPhone is out
>>> of the question because it's such a closed and locked up platform. I
>>> started looking around at other devices, but that was a bit
>>> overwhelming.
>>> Maybe it's just because I'm new to the world of mobile computing and
>>> have missed something, but I couldn't find a single mobile
>>> hardware/software platform which is properly Free/open from top to
>>> bottom (i.e., friendly to people who don't mind getting their hands
>>> dirty), actively maintained, doesn't require me to screw myself over by
>>> taking on a contract which I can't afford (internet tablet would be
>>> ideal), and runs Pd. Is PDa still being developed?
>>> Am I asking for too much? Or is what I want already out there?
>>
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